IBM has been in ‘failed’ acquisition talks with Sun for the past few weeks. Oracle has struck the deal to acquire Sun for $7.4b which works out to $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.

You will find many blog postings related to this acquisition. There is one line item that directly effects us at Oneindia.in and Click.in – MySQL. I have been using MySQL since late 1990s. It is definitely one of the most popular OpenSource databases (the other one being Postgres).